Re: Apple Legacy Recovery CD

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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> In article <20050917141911782+1200@News.Individual.NET>,
> Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
>> In <quDWe.1127$7x4.811@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> Sean Fahey wrote:
>>
>> > I don't have software loaded on my Mac to make an ISO, hence
>> > the DMG.. Disks stored on the CD are in img format. So, that means Mac
>> > users will have it easy, PC users may have to work at it a little.
>>
>> If you're running Mac OS X 10.3 or later you can use Disk Utility to do
>> it. Menu: Images / Convert... / Image Format / DVD/CD master. This
>> creates a *.cdr file. Just change the filename extension to *.iso and
>> it'll work with most other programs.
>
> Excellent! I'd tried the "read-only" choice first, and it works, too.
>
> Looking to see if I could actually mount a ProDOS filesystem on the
> Desktop, I tried Classic Disk Copy (v6.3.3). It too can decompress
> images, but apparently one needs PC File Exchange to peek inside.
>
> Still, the resulting images are readable by (e.g.) Apple Commander:
>
> $ java -jar ~/bin/ac.jar -l Users.dmg
>
> /USERS.DISK/
> * PRODOS SYS 030 09/18/1984 02/18/1988 14,848 A=$2000
> * BASIC.SYSTEM SYS 021 06/18/1984 02/18/1988 10,240 A=$2000
> * FILER SYS 051 10/15/1983 10/15/1983 25,600 A=$016E
> * CONVERT SYS 042 11/01/1983 11/01/1983 20,481 A=$2000
> * STARTUP BAS 024 10/15/1983 10/15/1983 11,465 A=$0801
> * MOIRE BAS 003 10/15/1983 10/15/1983 941 A=$0801
> * HYPNOSIS BAS 003 10/15/1983 10/15/1983 637 A=$0801
> * ANIMALS BAS 010 10/15/1983 10/15/1983 4,578 A=$0801
>  LABELS BAS 006 06/12/1984 04/26/1984 2,167 A=$0801
>  FORMLETTER TXT 001 02/18/1988 02/18/1988 464
>  STARTUP2 BAS 003 02/18/1988 02/18/1988 821 A=$0801
>  BILL BIN 017 02/18/1988 02/18/1988 8,192 A=$2000
>  STARTUP.PRO BAS 003 02/18/1988 02/18/1988 735 A=$0801
>  STARTUP3 BAS 024 02/18/1988 02/18/1988 11,460 A=$0801
> ProDOS format; 693760 bytes free; 125440 bytes used.
>
> -- 
> John
> jmatthews at wright dot edu
> www dot wright dot edu/~john.matthews/

Well, I burned one, and can't get it to read on HFV Explorer
which reads every other HFS disk I have in the house, but,
not this one. Maybe I burned it wrong.

Bill Garber